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Best Manners Poems

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Premium Member Table Manners
I don’t know about you but I think it right
That kids should eat at the table, most every night.
Sit down with mum, sit down with...

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Categories: manners, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Good Manners
When dinning out in a restaurant there are things you should not do!
            ...

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Categories: manners, food, funny, hilarious, humorous,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Good Manners
~Good Manners~
(Rhyme Verse) 


It is good to have manners 
And I'am refering to good ones 
It's great to say 'Thank you' 
When you get something...

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Categories: manners, culture, inspirational, life, people,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Manners of Management -
They made mammon somethng measurable, mighty, & magnificent,
everywhere that labor, exchange, & entertainment exist monuments
to money, large and small,

the genesis was excess manufacture 
such as...

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Categories: manners, education,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Bad Manners
What came of you, oh rouging bashful sun
Your fiery face belies your youthful enterprise
Morning dew illuminates by incandesce spark
Was it brash action of the taunting...

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Categories: manners, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mind Yer Manners
My long-sufferin' Mother tried to teach me the rudiments of social graces,
So as not to make a fool of myself at fancy affairs and such...

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Categories: manners, growing up, humorous, ,
Form: Rhyme



If Manners Maketh Man - and Woman Too
If manners maketh man - and woman too

then why do no manners men - women fit 

any boot or shoe? If you expect better you...

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© Peter Dorr  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: manners, people,
Form: Free verse
More Manners Please
Politeness, respect, courtesy
Is something that's so hard to see
When no one takes the time to learn
Theres so much that we can earn
If people would just...

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Categories: manners, world,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Miss Monkey Manners Vii
Dear Miss Monkey Manners: I’m a Spider Monkey in need of your help, 
Recently someone yanked my tail and I cried out with a yelp....

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: manners, funny, me,
Form: Light Verse
Dear Miss Monkey Manners Viii
You can't tell me that you didn't see this coming.

Dear Miss Monkey Manners, can you spare a minute? 
I know that you help apes in...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: manners, funny, girl, me,
Form: Light Verse
Tiger Manners
Tiger Manners

Mom makes tea in the cabin
Leaves baby on the porch to sleep
Under the canopy of shade 
There in the jungle creatures have their ways
As...

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Categories: manners, abuse, adventure, baby, dark,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Bedside Manners
Oh love of mine what can you do,
When day finds loved one soon to die,
Poor taste the joke, self-serving tears,
What gain is there when you...

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Categories: manners, death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme
Good Manners Are Important
Be charming
If you can't be charming
Be personable
If you can't be personable
Call me
I can't either
and I'll beat the piss out of you
You miserable jit bag

This isn't...

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Categories: manners, conflict,
Form: Light Verse
You Have My Gratitude
“No thank you” 
I spoke in answering whether I wanted my till receipt ,

No ! wait ‘
but there is a ( thank you for your...

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Categories: manners, allegory, caregiving, imagery,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Merlin the Magic Cat
Merlin the cranky cat
sat around getting fat.
Wanting to be heard
he mewed and purred. 

He yowled and howled
and even growled
all with the same result.
He felt it...

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Categories: manners, allegory, cat, cute, magic,
Form: Personification

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry